179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Do People Believe Conspiracy Theories as Being True?
Kissenger: A lot of conspiracies really do happen. Watergate, iran contra wicki leeks revealed quite a bit. The same generation that had won a world war to in large measure by bombing japanese and german cities continued to believe that the way to win a war to to bomb. Kissenger: It's only arcademics and journalists who've never made en a tougher decision than to spike a piece or to veto a tenure case.
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